Shane Harris is a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, covering national security, and a fellow with the International Security Program at New America. A former senior intelligence and national security correspondent for The Daily Beast, he is the author of The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State and @War: The Rise of the Internet Military Complex.
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